{"id":9979,"date":"2024-12-09T23:30:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T04:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=9979"},"modified":"2024-12-09T23:30:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T04:30:20","slug":"christmas-bloody-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/12\/09\/christmas-bloody-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Bloody Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Christmas Bloody Christmas<\/strong> (2022)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shudder\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 87 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No MPAA rating (strong bloody violence and gore, pervasive language, sexual content, drug and alcohol use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Joe Begos\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Joe Begos\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Steve Moore\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Brian Sowell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: December 9, 2022 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Riley Dandy, Sam Delich, Jonah Ray, Dora Madison, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Abraham Benrubi, Jeremy Gardner, Graham Skipper, Kansas Bowling, Joe Begos, Josh Ethier, Elliott Gilbert, Adam Dietrich, Matt Mercer, Aerial Washington, Coen McClure.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $251,586 (US)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0With a title like Christmas Bloody Christmas<\/strong>, you know it\u2019s not a feel-good holiday movie for the whole family, not unless it\u2019s the family from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I can say without hesitation that Christmas Bloody Christmas<\/strong> is the best movie about a killer robot Santa Claus I\u2019ve ever seen. Never mind that it\u2019s the only one I\u2019ve ever seen. The robot Santa in this low-budget horror movie from writer-director Joe Begos (VFW) is creepier than the Tim Allen one in The Santa Clause 2. That one just wanted to send coal to all the children of the world, naughty or nice. This one slaughters everybody that crosses its path. He makes a bloody mess of it too. Yeah, this flick has some cool kill scenes.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I reckon the best way to describe Christmas Bloody Christmas<\/strong> is a demented mix of The Night Before Christmas, The Terminator, RoboCop, Assault on Precinct 13 and Silent Night, Deadly Night. In fact, Begos originally conceived it as a remake of the 1984 holiday slasher classic. It was turned down because it strayed too far from the original. Funny, that didn\u2019t stop the awful 2019 remake of Black Christmas from being made. Anyway, Begos continued developing the idea and wrote the script during the COVID lockdown. It got made and PRESTO! A new holiday horror classic is born.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Okay, maybe \u201cclassic\u201d is overstating it. Christmas Bloody Christmas <\/strong>is a good movie. It\u2019s certainly fun. You know right away it\u2019s going to be a completely bonkers 87 minutes. It opens with a bunch of bogus Christmas commercials for things like malt liquor for kids, THC-laced Christmas cookies and a death metal concert by Santa himself. The last one is an ad for a robot Santa. Originally designed as a military-grade weapon, it was modified to be a replacement for human mall Santas. The problem is faulty programming. They tend to malfunction with deadly results.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It\u2019s Christmas Eve and all vintage record store owner Tori (Dandy, Things Will Be Different) wants is to get drunk and get laid. Her employee Robbie (Delich, Territory) wants the same. He talks Tori out of a random hook-up so they can hang together. They start off the night by visiting their friends at their toy store. They happen to have one of the defective Santas. Of course, it goes berserk while the couple is having sex. It then escapes and goes on a rampage through town. It sets its sights on Tori, but this girl\u2019s a fighter. She\u2019s not going down that easy.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Filmmakers with millions of dollars at their disposal will always go with CGI. Low-budget filmmakers don\u2019t have that luxury. Wait, did I say luxury? That\u2019s not right. Let me put it another way. They have the privilege of relying on good, old-fashioned practical effects. We\u2019re talking actual makeup, prosthetics and fake blood. That was absolutely the right way to go with Christmas Bloody Christmas<\/strong>. The effects are the work of an outfit called Russell FX. They look great! The robot is played by an actual human actor, ER\u2019s Abraham Benrubi. It\u2019s one of those robots that never stop, not even when they\u2019re stripped down to their endoskeleton. The kill scenes are nice and gory. One guy gets an axe through the skull from behind. Another gets it in the face. Somebody gets an axe claw in the eye. A man\u2019s head is stomped to a bloody pulp. Nobody is safe here, not even the child enthusiastically opening presents. Sometimes it\u2019s a little too dark to get a perfect view of the carnage, but I\u2019ll still take it over computer-generated visuals any day.<\/p>\n

\u00a0What am I supposed to say about the acting in Christmas Bloody Christmas<\/strong>? It\u2019s exactly what you\u2019d expect. The actors scream real loud and run not quite fast enough. The final girl-to-be Tori is an interesting sort. She\u2019s the perfect blend of bad ass and smart. She makes a good argument for the superiority of certain horror sequels, Pet Sematary Two in particular. Dandy does well in the role. I hope to see more of this actress in the future.<\/p>\n

\u00a0One thing I couldn\u2019t help but notice is the amount of profanity used by the characters. Do young people really talk like that these days? There are more f-words in Christmas Bloody Christmas<\/strong> than any given Judd Apatow comedy. I\u2019m not offended by swearing, but too much is too much. There are other words in the English language.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Okay, so Christmas Bloody Christmas<\/strong> is a goofy movie. I suppose that goes without saying. We\u2019re not talking about a Fellini film here. It\u2019s a killer robot Santa! I\u2019ll grant that it\u2019s amateurish most of the time, but not the bad kind of amateurish. It\u2019s a pretty good looking film considering. The cinematography by Brian Bowell gives it a nightmarish quality. Rarely have Christmas lights and decorations looked as threatening as they do here. I\u2019m actually impressed by how well Begos pulls it all off.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sometimes you just have to lose all your inhibitions, suspend good taste and forget common sense altogether. It\u2019s the best frame of mind in which to watch Christmas Bloody Christmas<\/strong>. Nobody in their right mind should enjoy such a film. Thankfully, I\u2019m not in my right mind. I\u2019m really not, my mother had me tested. Hey, I\u2019m good with being a little crazy. Oh f*** it, I\u2019m a lot crazy. That\u2019s why I feel okay about recommending Christmas Bloody Christmas<\/strong>. Yes, it\u2019s a holiday movie that belongs in insane asylums not cinemas. Those are the best kind! HO, HO, HO, SPLAT!!!\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shudder\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 87 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No MPAA rating (strong bloody violence and gore, pervasive language, sexual content, drug and alcohol use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Joe Begos\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Joe Begos\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Steve Moore\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Brian Sowell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: December 9, 2022 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Riley Dandy, Sam Delich, Jonah Ray, Dora Madison, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Abraham […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,25,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holiday-movies","category-horror","category-scary-gory-wild-i-love-it"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Christmas-Bloody-Christmas-.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9998,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979\/revisions\/9998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}